Malnutrition Clinical Characteristics Validation Study
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Brief summary
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Malnutrition (under-nutrition) occurs in approximately 30% of hospitalized adults worldwide and results in poor outcomes. However there is no universal method for diagnosing malnutrition. A group of experts created a set of 6 characteristics to identify malnutrition. The goal of this project is to determine whether these characteristics are the best indicators to identify malnutrition or if there are other factors that may better identify malnutrition. Because there is no gold standard definition for malnutrition, the investigators will compare the characteristics against outcomes such as length of stay, hospital readmission and death. Outcomes are also influenced by disease state, therefore, information on what brought the patient to the hospital and what happened to them in the hospital will be collected that allows the investigators to separate the effect of malnutrition from disease. The hypothesis for this study is that the malnutrition clinical characteristics and diagnosis criteria, as presented by the experts, are valid and reliable principles for the diagnosis of adult under-nutrition.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02182427
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 54 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 31, 2014
- Primary completion
- Sep 30, 2015
- Completion
- Sep 30, 2015
- Last update posted
- Jan 26, 2016
2014 – 2015
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University Hospitals Case Medical Center | Cleveland | Ohio | 44106 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic | Cleveland | Ohio | 44195 | — |
| St. John's West Shore Hospital | Westlake | Ohio | 44145 | — |
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Non-U.S. locations
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